Finalists:

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

Winner:

Finalists:

Myron
Levoy - Alan and Naomi
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are
Friends
Katherine Paterson - The Great Gilly
Hopkins
Maurice Sendak - Higglety Pigglety Pop!:
Or There Must Be More to Life

CURRENT INTEREST (HARDCOVER)

Winner:

Julia Child , Julia Child and More Company

Finalists:

Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow - Design
for Independent Living: The Environment
and Physically Disabled People
Gay Gaer Luce - Your Second Life: Vitality
and Growth in Middle and Later Years
Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady,
Jr. - The Pritkin Program for Diet
and Exercise
Robert Ellis Smith – Privacy:
How to Protect What’s Left of
It

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

Winner:

Finalists:

Cynthia
W. Cooke, M.D. and Susan Dworkin - The
Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health
Editors of Solar Age magazine
- The Solar Age Resource Book
Stuart Berg Flexner - I Hear America
Talking: An Illustrated History of American
Words and Phrases
Elizabeth L. Scharlatt, ed. –
Kids: Day In and Day Out

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)

Winner:

Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Finalists:

James
Lincoln Collier - The Making of Jazz:
A Comprehensive History
Daniel J. Kevles - The Physicists:
The History of a Scientific Community
in Modern America
Allen Weinstein – Perjury: The
Hiss-Chambers Case
Theodore H. White - In Search of
History: A Personal Adventure